"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep," Obama cautioned. Young and charismatic but with little experience on the national level, Obama smashed through racial barriers and easily defeated ...

<quoted text>Single payer doesn't even work in much less populated countries for those with chronic or urgent health care needs.Why would you or anyone else think it would be any different in a country of this size with a government as incompetent as ours?Eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone - the Whole Foods alternative:http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142...You should read it. I'd like to know your comments.

Who says it's not working in the countries that have it? You? No one in any of those countries has ever gone bankrupt or lost their homes due to unaffordable medical bills and contrary to the myths that the right wing puts forth, no one has to wait for treatment of life threatening conditions.mvhca.squarespace.com/myths/&#... ;

John Mackey's suggestions are the same hogwash we've been hearing for a while and wouldn't actually bring down costs for anybody.Allowing insurance sales across state lines would only encourage insurance companies to establish their headquarters in states with the loosest regulations.Tort "reform" is always a big topic on the right even though medical malpractice costs are a negligible percentage of health care costs. In 2004, the CBO calculated malpractice costs amounted to less than 2 percent of overall health care spending. Thus, even a reduction of 25 percent to 30 percent in malpractice costs would lower health care costs by only about 0.4 percent to 0.5 percent, and the likely effect on health insurance premiums would be comparably small.

The person named as a terrorist was a US allay during during the toppling of Libyan President Colonel Moammar Qaddafi.

Today, Mr. Qumu, 51, is a notable figure in the Libyan rebels fight to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, reportedly a leader of a ragtag band of fighters known as the Darnah Brigade for his birthplace, this shabby port town of 100,000 people in northeast Libya. The former enemy and prisoner of the United States is now an ally of sorts, a remarkable turnabout resulting from shifting American policies rather than any obvious change in Mr. Qumu.

<quoted text>Good morning, Yeah.They really have become a crazy bunch."After bragging in a TV interview that the state's Voter ID regulations would "kick the Democrats in the butt," and after making reference to "lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything," a North Carolina conservative activist has stepped down from his Republican Party post.""The law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt," Yelton told Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi. "If it hurts a bunch of college kids too lazy to get up off their bohonkas and go get a photo ID, so be it. If it hurts a bunch of whites, so be it."Yelton also said, "If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it."http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2...

Pretty sneaky libtard. You do just what the liberal media does. You forgot to mention something.

Oh lookie! It's Mr. Sweden is doing "just fine" when they were having their 5th day of riots!

ROTFLMAO!!!!

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<quoted text>Who says it's not working in the countries that have it? You? No one in any of those countries has ever gone bankrupt or lost their homes due to unaffordable medical bills and contrary to the myths that the right wing puts forth, no one has to wait for treatment of life threatening conditions.mvhca.squarespace.com/myths/&#... ;John Mackey's suggestions are the same hogwash we've been hearing for a while and wouldn't actually bring down costs for anybody.Allowing insurance sales across state lines would only encourage insurance companies to establish their headquarters in states with the loosest regulations.Tort "reform" is always a big topic on the right even though medical malpractice costs are a negligible percentage of health care costs. In 2004, the CBO calculated malpractice costs amounted to less than 2 percent of overall health care spending. Thus, even a reduction of 25 percent to 30 percent in malpractice costs would lower health care costs by only about 0.4 percent to 0.5 percent, and the likely effect on health insurance premiums would be comparably small.

<quoted text>And the Repubs never see a problem with creating a nation of peasants and elites. 18% gain in 30 years for the middle class and 300% for the Top. 33,000 American factories closed in the past 20 years and shipped to China by the Rich CEOs to pay teen slaves .30 cents an hour.

Single payer doesn't work in much less populated countries when it comes to prompt care for chronic or urgent needs. It's not uncommon for people to die before receiving medical attention.Why would anyone think it would be different in a country of this size?Seriously. Why?

You're lying Carol; it works very well in countries that have it and no one has to wait for urgent treatment. That's a fabrication that big insurance would like you to believe. How many people have died in this country when insurance carriers have refused payment or treatment was terminated due to some arbitrary lifetime cap?

<quoted text>do you really want 30 cents an hour jobs in the US?( no need to use a decimal point if you use the word cents...you just said they make 30% of cents per hour...check with forks_make_us_fat on that, he'll round it up to one third!! you jus got a raise!!!!)

<quoted text>do you really want 30 cents an hour jobs in the US?( no need to use a decimal point if you use the word cents...you just said they make 30% of cents per hour...check with forks_make_us_fat on that, he'll round it up to one third!! you jus got a raise!!!!)

by the way, not to be picky, but a decimal should always be expressed as 0.30, not as .30

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